NSF Travel Support for 2020 Visualization Early Career Faculty Workshop

NSF 为 2020 年可视化早期职业教师研讨会提供旅行支持

• 批准号: 2028384
• 负责人: Remco Chang
• 金额: $ 1.61万
• 依托单位: Tufts University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2028384&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Travel; Support; 2020; Visualization

The Visualization Early Career Faculty Workshop offers specialized mentoring to junior faculty whose research spans broad areas in information visualization. Its goal is to develop the next generation of faculty in data science and visualization research so as to strengthen and diversify this field. This workshop provides a forum where junior faculty can interact with each other in a setting that promotes positive career growth and contributes to sharing knowledge. This event addresses both an important and timely need, as researchers in this field come from a wide array of demographic and technical backgrounds. Many departments have at most one researcher in visualization, and thus the mentoring the junior faculty receive from their home institution cannot address the unique challenges of building an academic career in this field. Junior faculty from underrepresented groups will be encouraged to participate. The workshop experience will support and retain this interdisciplinary workforce of researchers and educators in the important area visualization that enables decision making and knowledge discovery.Specifically, this workshop complements traditional academic mentoring by offering a peer support and mentoring group for junior faculty so as to exchange information with peers. Faculty recently transitioning from junior to mid-career stages also participate to help structure the content of the workshop and provide guidance. This event fosters the growth and development of new faculty as they begin their careers in academia. Its unique, small group format produces an intensive workshop that helps build identity as well as to bridge newcomers to the larger ecosystem of academics in visualization across the country. The group of attendees is curated so as to offer diverse perspectives that might not appear in each attendee's home department. Since visualization research is broad in scope, our attendees hail from multiple universities that serve a wide range of students as well as departments in multiple fields (such as Computer Science, Information Science, Computational Media, and Digital Humanities). Therefore, workshop topics span numerous cross-cutting concerns such as developing a visualization research program, recruiting and managing a research group, handling the academic responsibilities of teaching and service, and strategies for collaboration, achieving visibility, and work-life balance.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

可视化早期职业教师研讨会为初级教师提供了专门的指导，他们的研究涵盖了信息可视化领域。它的目标是发展数据科学和可视化研究中的下一代教师，以增强和多样化这一领域。该研讨会提供了一个论坛，初级教师可以在促进积极的职业发展并有助于共享知识的环境中相互互动。该事件既解决重要的，也是及时的需求，因为该领域的研究人员来自各种各样的人口和技术背景。许多部门最多都有一个可视化研究人员，因此，初级教师从其家庭机构获得的指导无法解决在该领域建立学术生涯的独特挑战。将鼓励来自代表性不足的团体的初级教师参加。研讨会的经验将在重要领域的研究人员和教育工作者中支持和保留这项跨学科的劳动力，从而可以进行决策和知识发现。特别是，该研讨会通过为初级教师提供同伴支持和指导小组，以与同伴交换信息，从而补充传统的学术指导。最近从初级到中期阶段过渡的教师也参与了工作，以帮助构建研讨会的内容并提供指导。这项活动在开始学术界的职业生涯时促进了新教师的成长和发展。它独特的小组格式将举办一个密集的研讨会，有助于建立身份，并为全国各地可视化学术界更大的学者生态系统桥接。参与者策划了一组，以提供各种观点，这些观点可能不会出现在每个与会者的家庭部门中。由于可视化研究的范围广泛，因此我们的与会者来自多个大学，这些大学服务于多个领域的学生以及多个领域（例如计算机科学，信息科学，计算媒体和数字人文科学）的部门。因此，研讨会主题涵盖了许多跨裁切问题，例如制定可视化研究计划，招聘和管理研究小组，处理教学和服务的学术责任，以及协作策略，实现可见性以及工作生活生活的平衡。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估智力上的智力效果，并被视为与基金会的智力效果相值。